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Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Obedience alone gives the right to command.
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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
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If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.
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Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
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The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above. His blinding light He flingeth white On God's and Satan's brood, And reconciles By mystic wiles The evil and the good.
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